Syracuse Player Quotes
Syracuse vs. Pittsburgh
March 1, 2008
Syracuse, N.Y. – Carrier Dome
Donte’ Greene, Fr., F
On the physical play under the basket:
“We tried to get the ball inside, tried to beat them up and wear them down. I think we did a good job.”
On what happened down the stretch:
“It was just turnovers. Jonny and I had a miscommunication on the inbound. One of our guards didn’t step up giving [Gilbert] Brown an open three.
On the final two games of the season:
“We should have come up with a [win] today but things happen. We’ll try to get these next two wins and we’ll be OK.”
Jonny Flynn, Fr., G
On Coach Boeheim’s postgame speech:
“There wasn’t any screaming. He just talked to us like we were having a conversation, just telling us how we really just gave this game away, how much this game really meant for us for the NCAA Tournament. Even as a team, not even thinking about the NCAA Tournament, this would have been a good win for our team. We just didn’t come through at the end, gave the ball away, didn’t contest open three-pointers at the end of the game. We deserved to lose this game.”
On the frantic pace at the end of the game:
“We should know that on the court, whenever we get into an out of bounds situation where you don’t think the best situation is unfolding on the court, you should use a timeout. We didn’t do that. It was just all on us. We could’ve got the ball inbounds, we could’ve not got muscled away from the basketball. We just got bullied out there.”
Paul Harris, So., F
On the play of Jonny Flynn
“Jonny was awesome. He was on fire. I told him to keep shooting and your shots will keep coming, and they definitely came tonight.”
On getting stripped at the end of the game:
“I think that was a key to the game, too. We all just started looking around but at the same time we still had the lead. The ball was inbounded to me and I thought they were just going to rush to foul like how things normally happen. They did, they waited and tried to trap and got the steal. There wasn’t a foul. It was good [defense].”
On the loss:
“This is a tough loss right here. It’s very tough to see us play so hard and then basically not get a game. It’s very frustrating, but we still go to practice, still play hard and get ready for the next game.”
